A handful of projects in the region will receive funding through New York state’s Regional Economic Development Council initiative, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced Wednesday.Touro College will receive $1 million to use toward creating a school of osteopathic medicine in the former Horton Hospital in Middletown.Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano stressed that, while the funding announcement is a “major step forward,” there’s more work to be done for the medical school to become a reality. The city’s Industrial Development Agency will likely schedule a meeting in early January to discuss and approve the project and its payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement.“I don’t want to leave anybody the impression this is a done deal now,” he said. “We have the final work to do with the developer and with Touro. (But) this brought us much quicker to that final process.”In Newburgh, the Matrix Distribution Park will receive $500,000 in funding that will be used to develop a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center near the intersection of the New York State Thruway and Route 84.The Hudson Valley Food Hub will get $775,000 to help processing and marketing opportunities for farmers and other food producers. The Hudson Landing Promenade project along the Hudson River in the City of Kingston and the Town of Ulster will receive $1.2 million.jdinapoli@th-record.comReporter Nathan Brown contributed to this report.